“Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.”

—  Robert Burns , The Cotter's Saturday Night

Stanza 9
The Cotter's Saturday Night (1786)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale." by Robert Burns?
Robert Burns photo
Robert Burns 114
Scottish poet and lyricist 1759–1796

Related quotes

Oliver Goldsmith photo

“Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.”

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 329.

Anthony Burgess photo

“He would milk the white man…. The white man had more money than sense.”

Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) English writer

Fiction, The Enemy in the Blanket (1958)

Rudyard Kipling photo

“Of all the trees that grow so fair,
Old England to adorn,
Greater are none beneath the Sun,
Than Oak, and Ash, and Thorn.”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

A Tree Song,
Puck of Pook's Hill 1906

William Wordsworth photo

“The gentle Lady married to the Moor,
And heavenly Una with her milk-white lamb.”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet

Personal Talk, Stanza 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

William Blake photo

“The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,
The humble sheep a threat’ning horn:
While the Lily white shall in love delight,
Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

The Lily
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)

“Thus I steer my bark, and sail
On even keel, with gentle gale.”

Matthew Green (1696–1737) British writer

The Spleen (1737)

Joss Whedon photo

“Stay crunchy, even in milk.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

"Joss to never learn how to work site! Man is complete Melvin! Mock him!" at Whedonesque.com (9 November 2005) http://whedonesque.com/comments/8735

“There are four basic food groups: plain chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, and white chocolate.”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: Forever and a Day

Oscar Wilde photo

“The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Richard Henry Horne photo

“Far out at sea,—the sun was high,
While veer'd the wind and flapped the sail,
We saw a snow-white butterfly
Dancing before the fitful gale,
Far out at sea.”

Richard Henry Horne (1802–1884) English poet and critic

Genius; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 88.

Related topics